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Kingston: Seniors' complex more energy efficient
Kingston Whig-Standard / Samantha Butler / 08 August 2011
The Royal Canadian Legion Villa, a social housing complex on Princess Street for seniors, is making leaps and bounds in en-e rgy efficiency, according to Kingston Hydro Conservation Officer Steve Sottile.
"They've done an amazing job, on a shoe-string budget as they go," Sottile said.
Sottile helped the building administrator, Darlene Lightfoot, file an application for an Ontario program called Save On Energy at the end of June, after surveying the property earlier in the month.
One Change Model Lauded Before House of Representatives
BCAG partnered with Project Porchlight for CFL bulb distribution in Brockville in the fall of 2007.
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PR-Canada.net / 16 May 2009
One Change Model Lauded Before House of Representatives at Hearings in Washington, DC
US energy efficiency expert Dr. Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez recently praised One Change and its award-winning Project Porchlight campaign before an influential committee of the United States House of Representatives, and encouraged the Department of Energy (DOE) to adopt similar programs to help meet the US' progressive energy saving targets.
